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Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Union (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 36. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on Ireland’s participation in a German-led EU battlegroup; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5205/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have invested in HEPA filters or other ventilation or filtration mechanisms to ensure clean air. [5212/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the progress in delivering objective sex education in schools. [5209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to ensure that schools have an atmosphere which is welcoming to LGBTQ+ students. [5213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on providing a Dublin allowance for teachers given the high costs-of-living and accommodation in particular. [5211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the policy of schools which require a utility bill for proof of address, and the difficulty this presents for families in emergency accommodation. [5210/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an increase in electric vehicles will put a substantial amount of pressure on the national grid in the long-term (details supplied); the possible outcomes if the grid becomes overwhelmed in coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5303/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Meetings (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the matters he discussed recently with other EU foreign affairs ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5204/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans a review of the ETB sector as it reaches its ten-year mark; how reports of wrongdoings have been handled and remedied; and the measures in place to ensure that this sector is properly regulated. [5309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will instruct her Department to immediately reverse the decision to refuse the hot meals scheme for a school (details supplied) which is a DEIS band 1 school operating in one of the most deprived areas in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5270/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 26 January 2023, if he will review a matter (details supplied) and ensure that the transport needed is provided to a student. [5408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if he agrees that full-time carers to children and adults with a lifelong disability should be entitled to a medical card; if he will take steps to ensure that this is introduced as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5409/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is important to remember that it is not a matter of debate that there is a problem with the law as it currently stands. We have the example of what happened to the workers in Debenhams. More than 1,000 workers were working for a company that clearly engaged in a cynical tactical liquidation to deny those workers what they had in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: He did agree with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: ICTU is on record in that regard. Other than ICTU, what other representative bodies are part of the CLRG?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Egan is telling me that the representatives of the bankers, the Irish Stock Exchange, the Irish funds industry and company directors along with two organisations that represent small firms were all against making workers preferential creditors while ICTU, which represents workers, was in favour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Well precisely. Is that not the point that class interest is being represented here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: Yes, but the ones that represent the workers are in favour of it and all the ones that represent the various business groups are against it. Will Mr. Egan outline the group's mandate under section 959 of the Companies Act 2014 when advising the Minister? What are the things of which it is supposed to take account?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: It has no mandate to protect workers' rights,